Part I General Perspectives

• Old Age as a Stage of Life: Common Terms Related to Aging and Methods Used to Study Aging
• Human Longevity in Historical Perspective
• Comparative Aging, Geriatric Functional Assessment, Aging, and Disease
• Cellular Senescence, Cell Death, and Transgenic Mouse Models of Aging
• Theories of Life Span and Aging

Part II Systemic and Organismic Aging

• The Nervous System: Structural, Biochemical, Metabolic, and Circulatory Changes
• The Nervous System: Functional Changes with Aging
• Sensory Systems: Normal Aging, Disorders, and Treatments of Vision and Hearing in Humans
• The Adrenals and Pituitary, Stress, Adaptation, and Longevity
• Female Reproductive Aging and Menopause
• The Ensemble Male Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis
• The Thyroid, Parathyroid, and Pineal Glands
• The Endocrine Pancreas, Obesity, and Diffuse Endocrine and Chemical Mediators
• The Immune System
• Cardiovascular Alterations with Aging: Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease
• Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Atherosclerosis
• The Pulmonary Respiratory System: Hematopoiesis and Erythrocytes, The Kidney, the Lower Urinary Tract, Body Fluids, and the Prostate
• The Gastrointestinal Tract and the Liver
• The Skeleton, Joints, and Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles
• The Skin

Part III Prevention and Rehabilitation

• Pharmacology and Drug Management in the Elderly
• Healthful Aging: Nutrition and Experimental Strategies in Dietary Restriction
• Benefits of Physical Exercise
• Regenerative Perspectives and Assistive Technologies.
  

• Paola S. Timiras, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Experimental Gerontology (for the Fourth Edition)

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David O. Staats, MD (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center), Doody’s Reviews